The symptoms are very similar to those experienced by bobguy10 here . A little more than a week ago, the screen started simply going black without it actually switching off or the power light blinking as it does when I am AFK for too long. Several people who have no access to the machine, use Nvidia...

Hey, I've been having almost the exact same problem! The problem is not really that I am not a very nifty Linux user myself (I'm good at reading manuals and instructions and following without deviation), but everybody who tries to help is at least one of: inexperienced with Linux whatsoever (over th...

I am trying to install Civilization 3 on a Mint 17 machine using Wine from the CD drive (yes, I still have the CDs, and they ran fine when I tried them on Windows btw.) njan@njan-desktop ~ $ wine /media/njan/DISK1/setup.exe I'm getting this error in the terminal: njan@njan-desktop ~ $ fixme:storage:...

Well, so far everything's working. It took longer than I thought because I dozed off eventually and the updating process stopped at one of the Y/N prompts. Thanks very much, mr. xenopeek! Now I have to deal with a nightmare left over from Mint 16… shutdown problems. Shutting down with Windows XP sti...

Hello all! This is my first post here. I am running Mint 16 -Petra- on a dual-boot machine (with Windows XP, which I never installed, because, among other things, I can't get our printer and some applications to work on Linux, as the other half of the setup) and, so, I'd like to ask… how do I get to...